Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) uses various participatory tools to gauge peoples exposure to and capacity to resist natural hazards. It is an integral part of disaster preparedness and contributes to the creation of community-based disaster preparedness programmes at the rural and...

This toolkit assembles a set of tools and describes the process for conducting a Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Analysis (PCVA) of disaster and climate change risks at the community level. This PCVA toolkit is targeted primarily for community-based staff members of development agencies...

This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyze people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilize resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disaster.

This toolbox provides a detailed explanation on how to undertake the research part of a VCA. It will help you to choose the right tools to suit your purpose and describes when and how to use them and what to do with the information collected.

The purpose of this training guide is to provide VCA facilitators with the necessary tools to train those who will be implementing the actual VCA. It is designed to enable volunteers with little or no experience of community-based participatory information gathering to complete a successful VCA,...

This ‘How to do a VCA’ second publication is intended as a practical, how to guide the National Society staff and volunteers to undertake VCA. This is a part of a series of publications on VCA: What is VCA, VCA toolbox the third publication and VCA training guide the fourth publication. Together,...

The toolkit is part of the pilot project called Disability Inclusiveness in Disaster Risk Reduction Management in Fiji in partnership with the Pacific Disability Forum which is fully funded by the Australian International Development Agency (AusAID) from 2011 – 2013.This toolkit upholds United...

This manual is intended to provide methodological and practical guidance to ACF field workers on how to implement Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Assessment (PCVA) so as to design and initiate stand-alone or mainstreamed DRM actions at the community level. Its variety of tools and guiding...

In addressing vulnerabilities, it is the communities themselves who have the capacity to make significant change. Humanitarian organizations and communities are increasingly working together to find solutions to the problems that contribute to vulnerability. One valuable methodology in the search...